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COAST GUARD

VEINTE DE MAYO coast guard patrol vessel (1895)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Veinte de Mayo     Glasgow, UK   1893 1895 discarded 1941

 

Displacement normal, t

203

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

45.7

Breadth, m

5.64

Draught, m

3.20

No of shafts

 

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 50

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Hotchkiss heavy long Mk II

Complement

43

Project history: Two-masted one-funneled wooden gunboat.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Because of shabby condition in beginning of WWII Veinte de Mayo was disarmed, decommissioned and broken up.

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